Distinguished Professor Chan Joshi has been selected for the
Distinguished Engineering Educator Award by the Engineers’ Council
for year 2014. The citation reads, “For his mentorship of a
generation of undergraduates and outstanding graduate students at
UCLA and postdoctoral researchers and other professionals in the
U.S. and the world.” The award recognizes “individuals who are
outstanding in professional qualities and have a top reputation for
engineering accomplishments and leadership.”

Professor Joshi has been on the faculty of the Electrical
Engineering Department since 1988. During the past three decades he
has trained a generation of graduate students and postdoctoral
researchers many of whom have won accolades and gone on to
distinguish themselves as researchers and leaders. Many are faculty
members in the top-ranked universities in this country and abroad.
In addition many international visitors have come to UCLA to learn
the finer aspects of doing experimental research in plasma
engineering from Professor Joshi. In fact in a recent book Engines
of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators by A.M.Sessler and
E.Wilson, the authors note that " Almost all the fine
accomplishments described in this section on lasers and plasmas ,
and those of more than 30 groups worldwide devoted to this subject,
can be traced back to the UCLA group of Chan Joshi". At the same
time Professor Joshi takes great care and pride in his undergraduate
and graduate classroom teaching and mentoring. Thousands of students
have taken his Engineering Electromagnetics and Laser Theory classes
at UCLA and years later remarked that these were some of the best
classes they had taken at UCLA. Currently Professor Joshi is the
Chair of the EE department’s courses and curriculum committee
entrusted with ensuring that the undergraduates in the EE program
get an educational experience that is hands-on, yet firmly rooted in
fundamental principles that are the basis of electrical engineering.

The Engineers’ Council will honor all awardees at the 59th
Engineers' Council National Engineers' Week Honors and Awards
Banquet on Saturday, February 22, 2014, at the Sheraton Universal
hotel in Universal City, California.